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Have you thrown 'Why is a raven like a writing desk?' at her yet? — Elle Lothlorien

'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late. — Hilary Mantel

I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk. — Brad Barkley

Why is a raven like a writing-desk? — Marissa Meyer

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty. — George Singleton

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk. — John Grisham

Writing is a deeper sleep than death.
Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave,
I can't be dragged from my desk at night. — Franz Kafka

It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. — Thomas Pynchon

Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write. — Emma Thompson

A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk. — Robert Anderson

I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk. — Victoria Aveyard

In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not. — Aysha Taryam

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing. — H.G.Wells

Good evening," said the barman. "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" "Because Poe wrote on both? — Jasper Fforde

You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories. — Linda Fairstein

When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present. — Brandi L. Bates

I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too. — Susan Hill

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing. — Ray Bradbury

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk. — Janet Fitch

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk. — Marina Tsvetaeva

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book. — Friedrich Nietzsche

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered. — Stephen Greenblatt

During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours. — Gail Tsukiyama

Alice: Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Hatter: I haven't the faintest idea. — Lewis Carroll

My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk. — Anthony Horowitz

I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write. — Gary Panter

You can tell the number of hours spent on a work by counting the number of coffee rings on your desk. — A.D. Posey

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life. — Erica Jong

It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed. — Mallory Ortberg

Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice — Lewis Carroll

Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends. — Brad Meltzer

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove. — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances. — Shane McCrae

Every morning or afternoon, whenever you want to write, you have to go up and shoot that old bear under your desk between the eyes. — Robert Leckie

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. — Etty Hillesum

He leaned against the writing desk and stayed there till nightfall, lost in sorrowful thoughts. After all, she had loved him. — Gustave Flaubert

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. — Anais Nin